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Colts get season extended with No. 10 seed in the state playoffs

SILVER CITY – An extended season is something that happened for the Silver High football team after it got a No. 10 seed in the Class 4A New Mexico High School State Football Championships. The Colts will head north to face No.

SILVER CITY — Silver High's football team extended its season (4-6, 2-2 in district) with a No. 10 seed in the Class 4A New Mexico High School Football Championships. The Colts head north to face No. 7 Shiprock on Saturday at 1 p.m.

“I think that’s about where we should be,” head coach Raul Diaz said. “The kids are excited about this opportunity to play. All we wanted was for them to give us a chance. Now we have to go out and earn it.”

The Colts were off last week with a bye on their last game of the year. Diaz said that gave his team a chance to heal up and to work on fundamentals.

“We didn’t know who we were going to play, so we couldn’t prepare for anyone really,” Diaz said. “Honestly, we were thinking more like Ruidoso, Taos or even West Las Vegas.”

But, Diaz and company got busy exchanging film and looking at Shiprock immediately. Other first round games are going to be No. 5 Hatch Valley vs. No. 12 New Mexico Military Institute; and No. 6 St. Michael’s vs. No. 11 West Las Vegas.

Robertson was seeded No. 1, while Portales got No. 2 and Moriarity was No. 3. Cobre was seeded No. 4. Those teams all received a first-round bye.

“Shiprock likes to spread the football from what we know,” Diaz said. “We are going to prepare for them and will be ready to travel. It’s going to be a long trip, but we have dug ourselves in this hole and we know from here on out we are going to have to play on the road.”